By Jeff Markle
Director of Operations

The 3rd annual Centennial State Games will be taking place over two weekends.  June 1-4 featured the 18U and 17U divisions of the games.  There were 74 teams participating in the opening weekend of the Centennial State Games spread all over the Front Range from Fort Collins to Colorado Springs.  The top 8 teams moved to Mullen on Saturday to play in the Quarterfinals and the Semi Finals and Finals were held Sunday at Metzler Park.

17U Championship Bracket Roundup

Quarter Finals

Slammers Quarton 10 Khaos Silver 2

Regis 6 Slammers Givens 2

CBA 1 Erie/Longmont 0

Team Colorado Arnold 5 Thunder Academy 2

Semi Finals

Regis 1 Slammers Quarton 0

The Raiders advance to the 17U finals behind an all around performance by Nate Dinges who went 3-4 at the plate and closed the game out with 1.2 innings pitched allowing 1 hit and striking out 2.

Team Colorado Arnold 5 CBA 3
Team Colorado moved to the finals on the bat of Bryce Parsons.  He went 1-3 on the day with 1 run, 2 RBI and 1 homerun.

Finals

Team Colorado Arnold 7 Regis 5
Team Colorado Arnold uses a 5 run 5^th inning to jump out to a 7-1 lead, but Regis adds 4 of their own in the top of 6 to make it close at 7-5.  Bryce Parsons for TC Arnold provided the offensive spark going 1-3 with 2 runs, 3 RBI and a big homerun.